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A Powerful Appearance of Life: Cornelis de Vos’s Mother and child
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a fine portrait of a Mother and child (fig. 1) by the early seventeenth-century Flemish artist Cornelis de Vos.
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 69
The NGV Women’s Association is proud to present Melbourne in a Moment, a half-day seminar featuring six of the artists included in Melbourne No
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In the Void: Robert Klippel’s Models of Unreason
On 26 February 1968 Robert Klippel’s largest Australian exhibition to date opened at Bonython Gallery Sydney in Paddingto
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Moschino’s Survival jacket and trousers
Survival jacket and trousers is an attention-seeking exercise in self-parody and so qualifies as an exemplar of Franco Moschino’s ironic and comic styl
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Index 1945–2010
Note to reader Throughout its life, the NGV’s scholarly journal has been published under various names as quarterly and annual editions: Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1945–58;…
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The Trinitarias carpet: early masterpiece or modern reproduction?
The Trinitarias carpet (fig.
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At the edge of empires: a Biedermeier portrait from Trieste by Jožef Tominc
The Biedermeier style, which arose in central and northern Europe (Austro-Hungary, Germany and Denmark) between the close of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the pan-European revolutions of 1848, has…
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When the wattles bloom again: The Barak Project
The Felton Commissions (The Barak Project) was conceived as part of an ambitious three-tiered program that celebrates the National Gallery of Victoria’s 150th anniversary through a specific focus on the…
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Dior and Yamamoto: The New Look
I have personally always found the greatest charm in the long, sweeping curve from the ribcage past the waist and down to the hips.
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The fashion detective: Looking for clues
The vintage fashion lover will quickly hone her detective skills on the clues that garments reveal: style, fabrics, detailing, sizing and the most important determinant of value – the labels!…
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Linda Jackson Collection of outfits
In more than forty years of practice, Linda Jackson has played a significant part in the development of a distinctly Australian approach to fashion design.
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Devotion and idolatry: the conflicting purposes of a nineteenth-century Indian deity album
Introduction Within the genre of South Indian art, sets of paintings on paper depicting a range of subjects including deities, tribes and castes, occupations, regional costumes, festivals and temple sites…
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Sue Ford’s history
I have always been interested in how actions taken in the past could affect and echo in peoples’ lives in the presen
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Sue Ford’s history
I have always been interested in how actions taken in the past could affect and echo in peoples’ lives in the presen
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The Poussin Project
Welcome to the online conservation treatment diary for Nicolas Poussin’s Crossing of the Red Se